Two Parties Herald L.A. Antiques Show

If one big night works, why not two? That’s somewhat the concept of “Somewhere in Time,” the special black-tie gala the Junior League of Los Angeles plans Nov. 7 surrounding its upcoming seventh annual Los Angeles Antiques Show Nov. 5-9 at the Biltmore Hotel.

There’s always been a preview party. So this year, Nov. 5, there’s a preview party--$30 a ticket, kicking off the festivities, giving buyers a first crack at purchases. Then, two nights later, Nov. 7, comes “Somewhere in Time,” which chairman Jann McCord will stage with a lavish flair for opulence and romance, playing up to the Biltmore Crystal Ballroom’s fancy chandeliers, trompe l’oeil murals and lisianthus, the turn-of-the-century flower that is making a fashion comeback (and found in the ballroom’s design). She’s booked Michael Carney’s Orchestra, plans dance cards for romance, a live auction conducted by Christopher Hartop of Christie’s (including a Royal Viking 11-day cruise to Alaska).

President Carolyn Milner and Antiques Show Committee chairman Candace W. Waldron are promising 45 of the most prestigious dealers from Europe and the United States, including Los Angeles’ Richard Gould Antiques in Santa Monica, English Heritage of Los Angeles, W. Graham Arader II of San Francisco and MacConnal/Mason of London. Kathryn M. Toghia heads preview night and will be treating dealers and their guests to first-night fanfare.

Barbara Danielson and Wendy Wilkinson are assistant chairmen. Show hours will be 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. All proceeds will go to community projects including Community AIDS Education Outreach, the Contemporary Art Start and Neighborhood Earthquake Preparedness.

Planned, too, are two lectures--one “Auction Through the Ages” with Hartop on Nov. 7, and “Solving Design Problems” with designer Kalef Alaton, florist David Jones, antique dealer Rose Tarlow and Prof. John Lincoln on Nov. 9.

Ceil Moore never slows down. She’s back in Dallas on Turtle Creek after the Neiman-Marcus new members tea (40 new members) for the Keynote 88 Committee, which is planning the Los Angeles Pops Orchestra “Evening With Peter Duchin” benefit Dec. 4 (the Christmas Gala) at the Century Plaza Tower. Doris Fields Heller and Belle Owens are co-chairing that anticipated event.

Now Moore tells us she has a $250,000 pledge from a downtown business type to use to underwrite four Pops concerts. The orchestra recently staged three concerts on the beach for the Jonathan Club. Among those at the tea were Joni Smith, Nancy Dinsmore, Mary Jones, Mrs. Gerald Oppenheimer, Mrs. Bob Ray Offenhauser.

Circle in Red: Madlyn Rhue will present the 1986 Angel of the Year Award to socialite/philanthropist Joanna Carson at the Women in Show Business’ Celebrity Benefit Ball next Sunday at the Beverly Hilton. The former fashion and photography model and Judy Quine are Los Angeles co-chairmen of the Princess Grace Foundation-USC Gala in Dallas later this year. Carson is also being honored for her philanthropy through SHARE Inc., the Women’s Guild of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the Rape Treatment Center at Santa Monica Hospital and the UCLA support group SPRINT, and Child-help USA. As a double-header, Kirk Douglas will present the Humanitarian Award to Monty and Marilyn Hall. Spicing it up with entertainment will be Della Reese, String of Pearls, Joe Harnell and Joey Bishop. Gary Pudney and Michael J. Frankovich are dinner co-chairmen.

Upcoming: In honor of its 50th year, the League for Crippled Children celebrates its 44th annual Jack O’Lantern Ball on Oct. 24 in the Grand Ballroom of the Beverly Wilshire. The invitation specifies “formal.” . . . Charles Fries will receive the “Heart of Gold” from the Medallion Group of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center at its 20th annual Carrousel Ball on Oct. 25 at the Beverly Hilton. President Julian Weinstock heads “Hollywood! the Good Old Days” plans. . . . Actor Peter Graves narrates the first ever in-depth film on Catalina’s natural history for the Los Angeles chapter of the Sierra Club and the Santa Catalina Conservancy when the groups stage the Los Angeles premiere of the motion picture “Catalina, A Treasure From the Past” at 8 p.m. today at the Transamerica Theater in downtown Los Angeles.

The Guilds of SCR, South Coast Repertory’s 12-year-old volunteer organization, joins two other Orange County arts groups for a gala grand opening of the Broadway South Coast Plaza on Oct. 25. Nancy Moore and Marlene Hermes are co-chairmen. More than 3,000 are expected for the event which also benefits the Cabaret Chapter of the Orange County Performing Arts Center and the Junior League of Newport Harbor. Tickets are $35.

Thomas Hoving, editor-in-chief of Connoisseur and former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will speak at the Regency Club on Oct. 28 during a wine-tasting dinner and a diamond fashion show. The club and Tallarico Precious Jewels are collaborators on the black-tie affair.

Diahann Carroll’s the host. Dick Clark’s lending his Malibu home. Pals Ali MacGraw, Wallis Annenberg, Bruce Jenner, Robin Given and Lou Rawls are involved in hosting the reception Wednesday at Clark’s place to announce details of the United Negro College Fund’s 1986 Telethon, the “Lou Rawls Parade of Stars.” Fund president Christopher Edley will address guests. The telethon airs Dec. 27 with Rawls and Ed McMahon hosting. The goal is to help educate some 45,000 students enrolled in 43 private colleges and universities supported by the fund. Last year the telethon netted $8.4 million.

Past Perfect: Harriet and Chuck Luckman hosted cocktails at their Sunset penthouse to honor Dr. and Mrs. Peter Diamandopoulos. (He’s president of Adelphi University, Long Island, N.Y. and was here to attend a meeting of the U.S. Education Commission.) . . . The Gerald L. Katells were hosts at their Rolling Hills home for a Baroque Consortium Chamber Orchestra fund-raiser honoring Joan Hurst Moe and Dr. Martin Rosenzweig, presidents of the Norris Theater Management Board, and the E. Nakamichi Foundation. Sponsoring the event were the Katells, the William Kieschnicks, the Chadwick Smiths and the Thomas Wachtells. . . . Mrs. Walker Kimble headed the hospitality for the Muses luncheon this week at the California Museum of Science and Industry when Mario Machado announced student award winners in the junior science and humanities symposium. . . . They’re officially dedicated: three contemporary works, commissioned specifically for the new Stuart M. Ketchum-Downtown YMCA Sculpture Garden. Benefactors--the Morgan Adams and the Peter Adams families--were applauded for giving Milton Hebald’s two sculptures and the design by artist Gidon Graetz, which depicts the Y’s motto, “mind, body and spirit.” Additionally, a bronze bust of Ketchum by Los Angeles sculptor Richard H. Ellis was commissioned by the Y and stands in the lobby area.

Torchbearers is the Pomona College support group whose members give $1,000 or more annually. Franklin E. Ulf III headed the annual dinner this week at Walt Disney Studios, courtesy of Frank Wells, Walt Disney Company president, 1953 Pomona graduate and Pomona trustee. The 242 black-tie guests watched the adventures, via slides, of Wells, as he scaled six summits and nearly the seventh, Mt. Everest (he was forced to turn back just one day short of the summit). Among the crowd were Pomona president David Alexander and his wife, Catharine; Pomona president emeritus E. Wilson Lyon and Carolyn; John and Barbara Bartman; Bruce and Mary Crary; Stuart and Mary Davis; Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Pauley; John and Janie Pendleton; Harrison and Anne Price; Russell and Jeanne Smith; David and Judy Threshie, and Richard and Mary Alice Frank.

More than 1,200 celebrated the golden anniversary of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles when the Ladies of Charity hosted the 22nd Saint Louise de Marillac Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton. Chairman Mrs. W. Malcolm O’Donnell and president Mrs. John Shiels Wilson planned the affair. The Rev. Monsignor Francis J. Weber was keynoter, detailing efforts of Archbishop John J. Cantwell to petition for the establishment of Los Angeles as an archdiocese and the doubts expressed by the San Francisco Archbishop. (San Francisco wired congratulations in 1936.) The audience applauded vocalist Ann Blyth McNulty, Constance Towers Gavin (she brought greetings from her husband, John Gavin, former ambassador to Mexico), Mrs. A. V. Falcone (Mildred Lillie, chairman of The Hundred Committee), Jane Wyatt Ward, who presented the St. Louise de Marillac Award to Archbishop Justin Rigali of Rome, and June Haver MacMurray, who presented Golden Honoree Archbishop Roger Michael Mahony of Los Angeles his accolades.

Upcoming: Halloween fun surrounds the third annual Children’s Fashion Show sponsored by the Inner Circle of Los Angeles Children’s Museum next Sunday at the Beverly Wilshire. More than 800 are expected. The honorary committee includes Lou Adler, Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Jane and Michael Eisner, Carole King, Lucie Arnaz Luckinbill, Brenda and Lionel Richie, Jane Seymour, O.J. Simpson, Joyce Bogart Trabulus. Saks Fifth Avenue will do the children’s fashion show. The invitation touts “Costumes Preferred or dress casual.” . . . Jennefer Hirshberg, assistant director of the federal Office of Management and Budget, will be keynoter at Women at Work’s sixth anniversary luncheon Oct. 28 at Brookside Clubhouse. . . . New president of the Paulist Women’s Club (the mother’s club of St. Paul the Apostle School in Westwood) Katie Osterloh is full-steam ahead on the Fall Festival Friday and Saturday on the campus. Planning, too, are Sister Stella Maria, Susan Milford, Sue Connors, Lois Good and Marlene Thorpe. . . . Juniors of Social Service Auxiliary host “An Elegant Afternoon of Fashion and Flowers” (fashions and furs by I. Magnin) Oct. 21 in the Crystal Room of the Beverly Hills Hotel. . . . The grand prize in the Permanent Charities’ Third Annual Walk-A-Thon on Saturday will be two round-trip tickets to London, according to Renee Wedel, chairman. Ken Minyard and Bob Arthur are grand marshals and Stephen J. Cannell is celebrity chairman. Six hundred are expected to walk for $150,000. . . . Paul and Betsy Mazursky host the kickoff for “Everybody Needs a Home” at their home next Sunday. The goal is to establish the “300 Sponsorship Club” (each pledging $1,000) to finance QUEUE-UP’s efforts to provide affordable housing for the homeless. . . . State Sen. Joseph Montoya (D-Whittier) and Ed Begley of “St. Elsewhere” will be honored when the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific celebrates its Founders Gala on Saturday at the Century Plaza. Dr. Dante Marinelli and Mrs. Robert Witt are co-chairmen. . . . Dori Pye and Carl R. Terzian, president and vice president of the Los Angeles West Chamber of Commerce, co-chair a civic luncheon Tuesday at the Beverly Hilton honoring Bruce Blickensderfer, former chamber president.